can't use more than 9 mouse buttons in compiz

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Binary package hint: compizconfig-settings-manager

Hi! I just bought a Logitech mouse with 10 accessible buttons (well, five actually, but the wheel eats up another five). Unfortunately, it seems CompizConfig can only assign the first 9 of them.

I checked with xev, and all buttons are reported correctly. However, in ccsm the drop-down lists only show the first 9.

I've seen this reported on the forums a few times, so I'm pretty sure it's not a particular problem on my machine. Among other things, all other buttons work correctly. I followed a suggestion from a forum and changed a gconf key directly (replaced 8 with 10), but the effect was weird: as far as I can tell it (no idea if ccsm or Compiz) read "Button10" as "Button1", so I couldn't click normally.

I'm assigning this to ccsm, but in view of the above it might well be a Compiz bug.

[nachiket (nachiket)]

I can confirm having the same problem with my Logitech mouse. Manually editing compiz settings in gconf as suggested in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501185 doesn't seem to help.

[jeremy-list (quick-dudley)]

Manually editing compiz settings in gconf followed by logout/login got button 10 working for me. But I do think using a drop down menu at all is a design flaw. The keyboard shortcuts can be set using a "grab key combination" method: why can't something similar be done with mouse buttons?

[Darlan Cavalcante (darcamo)]

A can confirm this bug. I was able to assign the expo to the Button10 using the gconf method (no logout/login was necessary).

[Roeland Schoukens (roelandschoukens)]

Note that if you use the flat-file configuration backend instead of gconf, you need to edit a file (by default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig/Default.ini).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.